Tracking commodities

If you have a source that will provide you with a comma delimited file of the prices, you can import that into Quicken.

I do, but that requires me to make sure I hit the site every day and copy the numbers. B-) "Too much like work." What I'd like is some way to track the prices like a stock price.

Thanks for the advice, I may have to try and do something like that ... in the future. In my copious spare time.

pyotr

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Since futures contract symbols are every changing, trying to follow them in Quicken would be a vary time consuming project. There are special programs just for trying to track futures. It gets very complex merging the expiring contracts with the new contracts.

Why not just use site that will chart the price for you. Just one example below.

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I'll take your word for it. What I want to do is just enter a purchase of 100 "units" of CommodityA, and watch the spot price rise or fall.

pyotr

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I have several Canadian Oil trust stocks so I am interested in Natural Gas and Oil. I use the above every morning to get a feel on what is happening to both of these in real time. I am only interested in the % change, not the raw price.

Using Quicken for this would be a wasted effort. There are a few ETFs that track Oil and N. gas but they do not track the price correctly due to the way they handle the futures contracts. Oil and gas are very complex that few people really understand. Trying to follow just one index will get you into a lot of trouble especially in futures markets.

here are a few examples of the problems with ETFs to track Oil:

possible oil ETFs. However, many reviews I have read on USO claims due to it cost of rolling futures contracts, it does not accurately track real Oil.??

(9)+macd;charttypeÊndlestick;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=1;logscale=on;source=undefined the following discusses USO and some of these, but I don't believe the people posting really know want they are talking about.

Goldman Sachs Crude Oil Total Return ETN (OIL) MacroShares Oil Down ETF (DOY) MacroShares Oil Up ETF (UOY) PowerShares DB Crude Oil Double Long ETN (DXO) PowerShares DB Crude Oil Double Short ETN (DTO) PowerShares DB Crude Oil Long ETN (OLO) PowerShares DB Crude Oil Short ETN (SZO) PowerShares DB Oil Fund (DBO) ProShares Ultra DJ-AIG Crude Oil ETF (UCO) ProShares UltraShort DJ-AIG Crude Oil ETF (SCO) United States 12 Month Oil Fund (USL) United States Heating Oil Fund (UHN) United States Oil Fund (USO)

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Those are funds. I want to get the West Texas Sweet quote. I know that is not all of the oil prices, but it has become an index. "Oil is up, oil is down" usually refers to that price. Much like you take note of the price of regular gas at the sign board, even though you take premium: premium gas will be within a nickel of the price for regular. (Tells you how long ago I was filling up with the High Test B-) Sheesh, gas was 48 cents a gallon and it was killing me!)

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